To Tempt a Wilde

To Tempt a Wilde PDF Author: Kimberly Kaye Terry
Publisher: Kimani Press
ISBN: 0373862016
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 219

Book Description
After two years on the run, Althea Hudson finds her safe haven in Big Sky, Wyoming, at a sprawling ranch owned by three alpha males. But it's strapping Nathan Wilde who's making her heart beat faster. Original.

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation PDF Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231104562
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.

Playing with Temptation

Playing with Temptation PDF Author: Erika Wilde
Publisher: Janelle Denison, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 230

Book Description
When Raina Beck is given an invitation to The Players Club, all she wants is a night of decadence with a gorgeous, sexy stranger. The seductive, mysterious man she meets fulfills her deepest desires, giving her a night she’ll never forget. But forgetting him isn’t quite so easy. Logan Cruz prefers his women submissive and compliant in the bedroom…everything the independent Raina is not. Yet from the first moment he lays eyes on her, he’s determined to make Raina his. Despite her resistance. When Logan is assigned to protect Raina from a stalker, everything between them changes and emotions run deep. Falling in love was never on Raina’s agenda, but can she let go of the past and surrender the one thing he wants the most . . . her heart?

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation

I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation PDF Author: Maria Leach
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN: 1843176866
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde.

Resist Everything Except Temptation

Resist Everything Except Temptation PDF Author: Kristian Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781849353205
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
A book that penetrates the surface of the Oscar Wilde mythos to uncover the radical politics that propelled his art.

Built of Books

Built of Books PDF Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142993509X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life's pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait. One of the book's happiest surprises is the story of the author's adventure reading Wilde's library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional hero who enters Cervantes's mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde PDF Author: Matthew Sturgis
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0525656367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 865

Book Description
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.

To Claim a Wilde

To Claim a Wilde PDF Author: Kimberly Kaye Terry
Publisher: Kimani Press
ISBN: 0373864175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
A Wilde man will lasso your heart Naomi McBride left her Wyoming town to pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. But saving her family ranch from foreclosure trumps everything now. That's why the pediatrician has arrived in Cheyenne to confront Canton Wilde. The fabulously wealthy oil tycoon may be part of a far-reaching scheme to take the McBride lands. So why is this man with the haunting midnight-blue eyes tempting her to trust in the desire he's awakening--feelings she vowed never to give in to again? The curvaceous beauty that shows up unannounced at his homestead is a challenge Canton can't ignore. The Wilde heir has one ironclad rule: never mix business and pleasure. Only now he's in too deep to care. Will the truth about a secret he's keeping sabotage his future with Naomi? Or will their sizzling affair become a lifetime of love?

The Wilde Side

The Wilde Side PDF Author: Janelle Denison
Publisher: Brava
ISBN: 9780758203625
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

Book Description
For her thirtieth birthday, hotel heiress Ashley St. Claire, hiding her true identity, decides to have one night of passion with construction company owner Scott Wilde, a sexy stranger she propositions in a bar. Reprint.

Oscar's Books

Oscar's Books PDF Author: Thomas Wright
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446496104
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 285

Book Description
For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books on his friends- they played, too, a vital part in his seductions of young men. Oscar's Books tells the story of Wilde's life through his reading, from his childhood in Dublin, where he was nurtured on Celtic myth, Romantic poetry and Irish folklore; through his undergraduate years in which he built his intellect out of books; to prison, where his friends supplied him with literature which saved his sanity; to his final years in Paris where he consoled himself with old favourites such as Flaubert and Balzac. Fresh, utterly engaging and wholly original, Oscar's Books is an entirely new kind of biography.